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Originally Posted by abaya
If Christ was going to be part of politics in any way, he would have sided with the poor/oppressed/marginalized, no matter what the party was called. I have never understood how the Church could be stand by anything OTHER than liberation theology, if it was worth its salt.
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I can understand it, because that 'If' in your first sentence is a HUGE 'if'. I'm far from convinced that Jesus had ANYTHING to say about politics, aside from the tangentially-linked "give to Caesar what is Caesar's" and, of course, freedom of religion. Just as Jesus can be interpreted as NOT advocating the criminalization of Christian taboos, he can also be seen as NOT advocating the enforcement of Christian virtues.
I must admit ignorance on roachboy's talk of suppression under John Paul II - and it's a shame whenever open debate is stifled - but I, myself, would not favor a theology that necessitated anarcho-syndicalist political views.